The Autocar Awards, in association with NOCO, celebrates the most impressive motoring achievements of the past 12 months and the people responsible for driving the industry forward.
Held at Silverstone's Wing complex, this year's event shone a spotlight on the amazing cars, innovative technical achievements and inspiring leaders that have helped to make 2019 another pivotal year for motoring.
Our top accolade, the Issigonis Trophy, was awarded this year to Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche, whose passion for all things automotive and a customer-friendly business ethos have helped establish his brand as a flagbearer for innovation and development.
Autocar Awards 2019: Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche wins Issigonis Awardâ
The Sturmey Trophy for technical achievement, named after Autocar founder Henry Sturmey, was given to Renault designer Laurens van den Acker. Under his design stewardship, the French brand's models have become renowned for their progressive and beautiful styling, helping to make the future of motoring look very bright indeed.
âAutocar Awards 2019: Laurens van den Acker wins Sturmey Awardâ
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Dr Zetsche winning the
Dr Zetsche winning the unnovation award? Under Dr Z, the utterly conventional 3rd and 4th generations A class have replaced the brilliant original, and the EQC shares its platform with the GLC thus adding weight and negating all packaging advantages of EV.
Billy Monger
Surely there can only be one possible Motorsport Hero??
Toyota Corolla ‘Gamechanger’?!
In what was is the new Corolla a ‘Gamechanger’?!?! And the Jimny is a seriously compromised car at anything more than 60mph.